Nutella on toast – but would you want five tonnes of the stuff? Photograph: Rex Features

Following the recent maple syrup heist in Canada, in which nearly 3,000 tonnes of syrup, worth $18m, were siphoned out of a warehouse, the latest grand food larceny involves the theft in a German town of 5.5 tonnes of chocolate-hazlenut spread (that's 5,000 jars of Nutella).

In Italy, wheels of parmigiano are so valuable that delivery trucks have armed guards, but now it seems that, according to our colleague James Ramsden, almost anything edible – from meat and cheese, to tomatoes and coffee, and even Red Bull – is considered fair game by the criminal fraternity.

Not that you would ever handle stolen goods, but if you were offered several tonnes of your favourite food "off the back of a truck", what would it have to be?